The Visitors is her debut novel. She worked as a bond trader in London before studying at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and teaching film theory at the University of Salford. If (('gtm=off') const isAppRedirect = ('appRedirect') Ĭonst isAndroid = /Android/i.test(erAgent) Ĭonst isIphone = /iPhone|iPad|iPod/i. Born in Manchester, Catherine Burns is a graduate of Trinity College, University of Cambridge. As the truth is slowly unraveled, we finally begin to understand: maybe John isn’t the only one with a dark side. For years, she’s buried the signs of John’s devastating secret into the deep recesses of her mind-until the day John is crippled by a heart attack, and Marion becomes the only one whose shoulders are fit to bear his secret.įorced to go down to the cellar and face what her brother has kept hidden, Marion discovers more about herself than she ever thought possible.
A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to live by John’s rules, even if it means turning a blind eye to the noises she hears coming from behind the cellar door.and to the women’s laundry in the hamper that isn’t hers. Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother John in a crumbling mansion on the edge of a northern seaside resort. What becomes of a child who grows up without love? With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, this “bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable” (Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things) thriller explores the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces. As the truth is slowly unraveled, we finally begin to understand: maybe John isn’t the only one with a dark side.⚠️ This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May. Forced to go down to the cellar and face what her brother has kept hidden, Marion discovers more about herself than she ever thought possible. For years, she’s buried the signs of John’s devastating secret into the deep recesses of her mind-until the day John is crippled by a heart attack, and Marion becomes the only one whose shoulders are fit to bear his secret. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to live by John’s rules, even if it means turning a blind eye to the noises she hears coming from behind the cellar door.and turning a blind eye to the women’s laundry in the hamper that isn’t hers.
With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, Catherine Burns’s debut novel The Visitors explores the complex truths we are able to keep hidden from ourselves and the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces. The Visitors is bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable.” -Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things “Once you start Catherine Burns's dark, disturbing, and enthralling debut novel, it's hard to stop.
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